While issuing a series of directions in a matter taken up suo motu to look into guidelines for the functioning of the Court by video conferencing during the COVID-19 lockdown, the Supreme Court on Monday said that technology for such facilities is here to stay, says a report from Bar &...
The Union Cabinet on Monday approved an ordinance amending the Salary, Allowances and Pension of Members of Parliament Act, 1954 to reduce allowances and pension by 30 per cent with effect from April 1, for a year.
The President, Vice President, and Governors have also voluntarily...
The traffic on the Mumbai-Pune Expressway is expected to speed up as the demolition of a 189-year old unused bridge was taken up from Sunday, officials said.
The bridge, built by a British engineer Capt. Hughes in 1830—and later credited for laying the foundations of the...
I have a large number of friends across social, political and professional lines and also in, what is often called, rural or small-town India. And I also make the effort to visit them, usually by a cross-country train plus bus plus car plus bike plus tractor plus bullock cart plus on...
The World Bank has announced that India is to receive $1 billion in emergency financing to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
The assistance will support better screening, contact tracing, and laboratory diagnostics, procurement of personal protective equipment, creation of new isolation...
